Andrew McKean
Region 6 Prairie Dog Implementation Committee meets Dec. 19 in Malta The Region 6 Prairie Dog Implementation Committee will hold its third meeting next week in Malta. Among other conservation issues, members will discuss management strategies to maintain distribution and abundance of the rodents in northeastern and north-central Montana. The Dec. 19 meeting will be held from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. at First State Bank in downtown Malta. The public is welcome to attend the session in the bank’s upstairs meeting room and opportunities will be available for the public to make comments to the committee. In its last meeting, the committee heard an overview of sylvatic plague dynamics in prairie dog communities. Members of the committee also briefed one another on their respective agency’s tolerance for and management of prairie dogs. The Region 6 committee, which advises Fish, Wildlife & Parks on prairie dog conservation in the region, is comprised of representatives from the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, World Wildlife Fund, the Phillips County Commission, Zortman businesses owners and recreational shooters. The group will meet at least three more times this winter as it develops a set of management tools to conserve prairie dogs and prairie dog habitat in the region.
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